American Philosophical Society
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American Philosophical Society
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- At a meeting of the committee appointed by the American Philosophical Society : for the purpose of collecting and communicating to the society materials for forming the natural history of the insect called the Hessian-fly, as also information of the best means of preventing or destroying the insect, and whatever else relative to the same may be interesting to agriculture:[.]
- Conditions of the Magellanic premium
- Cuneiform studies and the history of civilization : papers read at the annual general meeting, April 19, 1963
- Laws and regulations of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. : Vide minutes of the Society, of the 4th May, 1804
- Philadelphia, 1788. At a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, on the 18th of April 1788, : a letter was received from Mr. James Rumsey, of the state of Virginia, accompanied with a drawing and description of an improved boiler for a steam-engine, as also drawings and discriptions [sic] of 1. An improvement in Dr. Barkers' grist-mill. 2. An improvement in the saw-mill. 3. An improvement in raising water by means of a steam-engine
- Premiums. : The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, in order the more effectually to answer the ends of their institution, have agreed to appropriate, annually, a part of their funds to be disposed of in premiums, to the authors of the best performances, inventions, or improvements, relative to certain specific subjects of useful knowledge. The following premiums, therefore, are now proposed by the society
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- A discourse concerning the influence of America on the mind : being the annual oration delivered before the American Philosophical Society, at the University in Philadelphia, on the 18th October, 1823, by their appointment, and published by their order
- A monograph of North American insects, of the genus Cicindela.
- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States.
- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States. : To which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles; and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793.
- A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general: : together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789.
- A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general: : together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789.
- A table of French verbs : ... conjugated throughout all their tenses and moods ...
- An account of the sugar maple-tree, of the United States, and of the methods of obtaining sugar from it, : together with observations upon the advantages both public and private of this sugar. : In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. secretary of state of the United States, and one of the vice presidents of the American Philosophical Society. : Read in the American Philosophical Society, on the 19, of August, 1791, and extracted from the third volume of their Transactions now in the press.
- An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. : To which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's discourse, on the original diversity of mankind.
- An eulogium, intended to perpetuate the memory of David Rittenhouse, late president of the American Philosophical Society, : delivered before the Society in the First Presbyterian Church, in High-Street, Philadelphia, on the 17th Dec. 1796. Agreeably to appointment,
- An oration, delivered February 24, 1775, : before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge.
- An oration, delivered February 4, 1774, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia. : Containing, an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America, and a comparitive view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations. : Together with an appendix, containing, proofs and illustrations.
- An oration, delivered March 16, 1780, : before the patron, vice-presidents and members of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge.
- An oration, delivered before the American Philosophical Society, held in Philadelphia on the 27th of February, 1786; : containing an enquiry into the influence of physical causes upon the moral faculty.
- An oration, delivered the second of March, 1781, at the request of the American Philosophical Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, : before the said society and a large and respectable assembly of citizens and foreigners.
- An oration, delivered, January 22 1773, : before the patron, vice-presidents and members of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge.
- Anniversary oration, delivered May 21st, before the American Philosophical Society, held in Philadelphia, for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge. : For the year 1782.
- Cartas presentadas a la Sociedad Filosofica de Philadelphia
- Descriptions of several species of chondropterigious fishes, of North America, with their varieties.
- Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. : President of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, fellow of the Royal Society of London, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, of the Royal Society at Gottingen, the Batavian Society in Holland, and of many other literary societies in Europe and America; late minister plenipotentiary for the United States of America at the court of Paris, sometime president, and for more than half a century a revered citizen, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Experiments and observations on the mineral waters of Philadelphia, Abington, and Bristol, in the province of Pennsylvania. : Read June 18, 1773, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia.
- Memoir on fossil reliquia of unknown vegetables in the coal strata.
- Memoir on the analysis of the black vomit, ejected in the last stage of the yellow fever.
- Papers relative to certain American antiquities.
- Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language, : illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. : [One line in Latin from Horace] : With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak.
- Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge
- Remarks on education: : illustrating the close connection between virtue and wisdom. : To which is annexed, a system of liberal education. Which, having received the premium awarded by the American Philosophical Society, December 15th, 1797, is now published by their order.
- The public good : knowledge as the foundation for a democratic society
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, Volume I
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, Volume II
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, Volume III
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, Volume IV
- Transactions, of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. : : From January 1st, 1769, to January 1st, 1771, Volume I.
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- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States.
- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States. : To which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles; and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793.
- A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general: : together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789.
- A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general: : together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789.
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